The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
Fashion Notes.

Satins are going out OF favor.
Tiny capotes are made of fancy Tus-
can.
Short-sleeved mantles are much in
vogue.
Vests as q rule, whether full or plain
are very narrow.
Leading dressmakers are making
basques somewhat longer on the hip.
Chip is being revived by English mil.
liners as a material for hats and bonnets.
Cream laces make the most tasteful
garniture for bright colored India or China
silks.
Raveled edges on draperies are shown
on a few imported silk and wooden
dresses.
Amber necklaces are very much worn
with evening toilets. The effect is quite
infantile.
Some of the very small capotes have
pointed brims, shaped in front like the
PROV of boat.
New capote bonnets of gauze are
made with row upon row of plisse about
two inches wide.
An entire black costume, showing a
suggestion of silver throughout, is very
distinguished in effect.
English girls are wearing sailor hats
with plain ribbon band without bows,
and turned up at the hack.
Large wooden rosary beads, placed as
closely together as possible, finish the
edges of the street jackets.
Black watered silk and black camel's
hair are admirably combined for dresses
for middle aged or elderly ladies.
Colored petals, instead of entire flow
ers, are used by London milliners where
a mere suggestion of color is desired.
Burnouse shawl draperles and jabot
folds are favorite arrangements for the
back of the skirts of spring dresses.
Muslin parasols in the twelve pointed
star designs have one star laid over the
other, one portion being transparent.
Collarettes, wristlets, and belts Of
vari-colored jets are worn with, and
render effective, the simplest costumes.
The old fashioned gigot or let of NUT
ton sleeves aro, sad to say, in fashion
again. They arc extremely distiguring.
In spite of attempts to introduce new
colors, pale drabs and grays continue to
be the favorite shades for dressy tailor
made suits.
Lace mantles lined with colored silk or
satin, bid fair to be popular the coming
summer. This is revival of fashion
of forty years ago.
Ribbon ruches of bright colors are still
worn inside the collars and cuffs OF
frocks, although every authority declares
them out of fashion.
Draperies of wool over silk or velvet
skirts are gaining added popularity each
day. There is tendency to drape light
shades over dark ones.
Silks are beginning already to drive
the elaborate combination wool costumes
out of favor again, though these latter
are not more than year old.
The newest shape in hats is called the
columbine. Its crown is square and the
brim very wide and faring. 1t is only
becoming to very youthful face.
Garibaldi waists are "in" again. The
full plastron paved way for them into
'refavor They are very comfortable, but
are not becoming, except to poor figures.
Greens, grays, Gobelins blue, hello
trope and old rose, and dull yellow
shades are the colors most frequently
repeated in the variegated silks of this
season.
Some of the new vests are very long,
and have tiny pocket lids bound with
braid, and fancy pointed bodices. Some
have chemisette at the top, the dress
meeting below it, then parting again,
showing a wide vest below.
A substitute for ruches in the neck ana
sleeves is produced by folding narrow
picot edged ribbon so as to show both
edges, and hemming it into the dress.
The ress should be held full and the
ribbon tight, which causes the latter to
sit smoothly when worn.
M more wholesome advice than this